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13 minutes ago, Bonnie said:

This is a disgrace. After all this time, no on or off ramps. Were ramps not built into the planning?

Bonnie, stop trying to be logical.

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54 minutes ago, Pat said:

Did you forget to add “in my opinion” after your comment?

Oh, thanks for reminding me. Foolishly lost my head and thought I was Keith Woolford there for a moment.  How careless of me. 

What would we do without people like you helping to keep us within the guardrails?

3 hours ago, Keith Woolford said:

Beats me as to why the U.S. State Department would keep statistics on the availability rating of potable water in Boquete. 

Does the Department monitor this in every town in the world?

What a dumb, arrogant question.

6 hours ago, Bonnie said:

. . . that led me to wonder from whence cometh the rain.

Bonny, it is my experience having lived on several continents that "mountains make their own weather" irrespective of what happens on the coasts, thus the multiple micro-climates we have here in Boquete.

4 hours ago, Ahren Grauer said:

Did anyone else find this statement arrogant and out of place?.... 

Any more out of place than Subway, KFC, Pizza Hut and McDonalds?

And remember . . .

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11 hours ago, Bonnie said:

It's been overcast and cold most of the day in Palo Alto, although certainly better than the last few days. It's raining again late this afternoon. Where is this coming from?

Because of the "bowl" around Boquete (formed by the mountains) Alto Lino and Palo Alto always seem to get more of their fair share of clouds and bajareque.

2 hours ago, TwoSailors said:

22,000 miles? R u sure about that?

10:00 a.m. WEDNESDAY - Finally pretty calm

This is only a feasibility study.

Any economic evalulation will show that the construction investment & operating costs of a train (freight and/or passenger) will significantly exceed any potential revenue generation. The only way this could ever be justified is through heavy government subsidies. The private sector could never make this profitable.

The Panama Canal is a cash generator. A train project would be cash vacuum cleaner.

7:00 a.m. TUESDAY - Better but dodgy

7:00 a.m. MONDAY - Still no picnic

Not looking good at 8:00 PM Sunday night

Why we're getting so much rain

Not sure why similar parades with marching bands, military personnel, policemen, firemen, schools, children, baton twillers and thousands of happy citizens all celebrating on a day set out to mark their independence is demeaning to anyone.

It was titled "4th of July" with quotation marks to associate it with patriotic public gatherings which is common to the US and Panama and many people understand the celebratory nature of that expression.

Did not assume that some people would take it literally since the video is clearly labelled  Dia de la Independencia in Spanish.

You kind of missed the point Keith. 

Parades are same whenever people celebrate. 

So much for clear skies this week in Panama & Costa Rica

Google has confirmed they will pay $4 million for the device but only if the Gnabes can return it to working order.

In further news, here are Google's real balloon/satellite projects:

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Loon

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OneWeb_satellite_constellation

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Haven't seen weather over Central America and the United States this calm for months.

4 hours ago, TwoSailors said:

It appears this video was shot late winter early spring from the appearance of the new leaf growth on the trees. 

All of this material was filmed by me two weeks ago.

Cudjoe Key, Big Pine Key and Marathon suffered tremendous property destruction which was piled on the main road (not shown in this video)

Key West was mostly tree and vegetation damage.

ROAD TO KEY WEST

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